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headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3887)[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4754: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3887)[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4755: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3887)[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4756: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3887) • View topic - RED SNOW: the new Special X thriller

I was able to get a copy of the book the day before Christmas and finished reading faster than a cheetah in a hurry. I'm waiting for everyone to read it so I can ask a question about something. Great book though.

I wish the media would report more on public service and charity news instead of gossip. It is of much greater value. - Jackie Chan

peeps:
I am a slow slow slow slow slow slow reader. In fact I look at ervery letter as I read the word. I absorb the story slowly. I am on page 70 .... but trust me I like to drag it out. Enjoy the story the first time...

Signing Slade????

Chaos !!!

"It's worked so far but we're not out yet" - Information Society (Star Trek)

Have no fear, Slade is here. He's been off signing stock in various book stores before the lockdown kicks in.

If you want a read-between-the-lines measure of official anxiety over the possibility of RED SNOW becoming fact, consider this from the Canadian Press:

OTTAWA - The last time the Olympic Games were held in Canada, the military sent 42 soldiers to operate a logistics and distribution warehouse.

Oh, how times have changed. Back then, the country's solicitor general decided the security threat to the 1988 Calgary Winter Games "was such that security assistance from DND was not required," said a Defence Department briefing note.

The RCMP and local police made up the security force in Calgary.

It seems quaint now, considering the police in Vancouver will be backed up by Afghanistan-hardened JTF-2 commandos and two battle group-sized formations of regular and reserve troops on land. Many of those troops have already deployed to the mountains and forests overlooking the venues.

There will also be frigates patrolling the waterways, CF-18 jet fighters screaming overhead and high-tech surveillance wizardry in the form of static surveillance balloons that are usually employed on the bomb-laced roadways of Kandahar.

In all, the Canadian military will field 4,500 soldiers, sailors and aircrew out of a total security force of 15,000. The federal and B.C. governments have set aside $900 million for the security operation.

You know the ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."

Mephisto has that engraved on the wall of his library, which looks a lot like this:

And while I have your attention, I must press the need for you to take a peek at the British crime series TRIAL AND RETRIBUTION. It's so far ahead of everything else in depicting how the police and courts really work. I know you're deep into the nitty-gritty of real life crime, so if you watch an episode like # 9 called "The Lovers," you'll see how they've used Ted Bundy, the various British "House of Horrors" cases, and particularly, what happened when the Yorkshire Ripper came to trial in the Old Bailey, to mine gut-wrenching gold.

Get into this series and most other programs seem trite in their depth.

Slade

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T&R episode # 10 called "Sins of the Father" is the best visual depiction I've seen of how a serial killer is "made." From law, I know the reasons, and I've seen the results, but the show nails it from the killer-becoming's point of view.

Lynda La Plante's writing method is interesting. She creates the fictional crime from real-life cases, then gives her resulting plot to lawyers and asks them what might happen when it gets to court. That's why - from a criminal system professional's outlook - the show is head-and-shoulders above the competition.

She's not writing about what she knows, she's writing about what a whole slew of cops, crime techs, lawyers, and judges know.

If you ask anyone who knew me back then, they'll tell you that I predicted we'd have one of our warmish, no snow-type winters this year, back when we were first awarded the Winter Olympics. I believe I even said that it would probably wind up being an El Nino year.

Awarding a city like Vancouver a Winter Olympics has got to be one of the dumbest things the IOC has ever done.

We're going to be paying off this debt for decades to come.

How hard can it be? - Jeremy ClarksonMake no mistake, this is a Supercar. Looks good .. goes fast .. nothing else matters. - Jeremy Clarkson